Job summary
The East of England Gambling Service is run by CNWL NHS Foundation Trust, which has over 15 years of experience providing pioneering NHS gambling treatment across the UK. We partner with Inclusion (Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust) which delivers gambling treatment across the West Midlands region. Both Trusts have extensive experience providing addictions and psychological treatment and care to a wide range of service users.

We would welcome your application for the role of Highly Specialised and Senior Psychological Therapist. Joining the team, you will share your specific expertise in a modality of psychological therapy at a Highly Specialised level to help sustain and develop the service as well as also providing clinical leadership to the service, within a senior clinical team.

Working alongside other Highly Specialised Psychological Therapists you will have strategic support from the Clinical Lead. This role is crucial in the responsibility for ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist East of England Gambling Service.

A key part of the role is to supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by PWPs, Counsellors, Psychotherapists, CBT therapists, psychologists, psychological therapists (as appropriate), and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist East of England Gambling Service psychological therapy service to clients with common mental health problems.

The post holder will assist the Clinical Lead and utilise delegated responsibility as appropriate in ensuring the effective high-quality clinical functioning of the service.

To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by PWPs, Counsellors, Psychotherapists, CBT therapists, psychologists, psychological therapists (as appropriate), and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

As well as providing clinical expertise in an area of psychological therapy, the senior psychological therapy lead also ensures the service's vision, business model, clinical quality, productivity and KPIs are consistently and systematically delivered.

The post holder will ensure ongoing quality improvements are established to improve delivery and will ensure supervision is robust and clinical pathways meet the requirements of the East of England Gambling Service and the evidence base.

About us
Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.

We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.

We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support.

Details
Date posted: 14 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time, Home or remote working
Reference number: 301-IT-26-8351115
Closing date: 28 October 2026

Job responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership for East of England Gambling Service and associated consultation, training and clinical supervision to other team members.
• Provide evidence based psychological therapy within your specified modality to a more complex clinical population, that cannot be met in a standard East of England Gambling Service pathway, but still meet the top end criteria.
• To provide clinical leadership to the service and operate within the senior leadership team.
• Ensure services meet the national competency frameworks, ensuring workforce compliance with NICE approved therapies and relevant psychological therapy / supervision competency frameworks (e.g Roth & Pilling).
• With the clinical lead, provide a quality feedback framework, by inputting to incident report reviews, critical incidents and serious incident reports, providing feedback and supporting staff, whilst assisting in identifying themes for improvements.
• Contribute to the implementation of specialist area pathways and provide ongoing monitoring.
• Engage in research activity within the services, providing a point of contact and a conduit to research colleagues.

This role is not eligble for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Accredited by the BABCP in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy / Accredited with the UKCP, BACP or NCS as a counsellor and psychotherapist / HCPC registration as a relevantly qualified practitioner psychologist (health psychologist, clinical or counselling psychologist).

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working in an NHS Talking Therapies therapy role, for a period to time, to gain a track record and experience of applying specialised therapeutic interventions.
• Skilled at providing support to team members and to assist in the development of the team's psychological resilience.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of clinical/managerial supervision.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Inclusion
Employer's website: https://www.mpft.nhs.uk

Contact
Project Manager, Andrew Ryan, andrew.ryan@mpft.nhs.uk, 07973893414

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